Homeschooling the Early years Pk-2nd

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Comment by Jan Arbelaez on January 26, 2012 at 4:00pm

Please feel free to post your response here to my question about what you have found to be successful or work well for you this year.

Comment by Shelia Dutcher on November 5, 2011 at 6:52pm

Two good resources I have used for PreK.

http://www.kidslearningstation.com/?utm_source=EmailDirect.com&...

http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/?utm_source=EmailDirect.com&utm_m...

Comment by Bev Hobbs on September 16, 2011 at 5:45pm

I am homeschooling our youngest who is 4. I am looking for a homeschool preschool group in Indpls. Does any one know of such a group?

 I have 2 older children that are graduated homschoolers so I have been out of the homechoolong loop for awhile

Thank so much,

Bev

 

Comment by Sabrina D. on August 28, 2011 at 5:40pm

Welcome Jenny! I haven't used McGruffey's primers, so I am not qualified to respond to your question. I just wanted to chime in and say welcome to you! Blessings, Sabrina

Comment by Jenny Kurtz on August 28, 2011 at 4:40pm

Hello,

I am new to the group and just wanted to share a little about myself.  I am a mom of two girls, 6 and 4.  This is my second year of homeschooling.  Still very new to all of it! 

I was wondering have any of you used McGuffey's primers for beginning phonics/reading instruction?  If you have what did you think of them?  I like them but think we need to supplement something else with them.

 

Thanks for sharing,

God Bless,

Jenny

Comment by Deborah A. Mackall on July 29, 2011 at 1:10pm

Hi Sabrina,

We won't start until after Labor Day. Before that we'll be attending an ICC Fall tour.  A great program: http://iccinc.org/

I try to combine children that are close in age or ability. Every year I make some changes as every year the kids are older and there's a slightly different dynamic. I will have 4 at home that need some type of schooling this year. A high schooler, 2 elem. and 1 pre-schooler.  I find that my balancing is always needing adjusting, but it all works out in the end.  . .

 

blessings,

 

deborah

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Comment by Sabrina D. on July 29, 2011 at 12:40pm

Yay! We are starting school on Monday!! The children are all excited, I am excited as well as nervous. LOL! This year is my 4th year of home schooling and I will have: a K-5, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. How to fit them all in is going to be the challenging part. It was difficult last year with just 3. I am sure I will figure it all out (probably just a few months before summer begins!) LOL! Any one else starting soon?? Are you making changes this year?? Are your children excited???

 

Comment by sandra nelson on June 24, 2011 at 8:55pm

I think a great activity to start word study is compound words. You can join with others and have a compound word day!  Compound word study (butterfly, facemask, windmill etc) is surprisingly fun and creative. It starts a process of thinking about words which creates fertile ground for word roots, sufixxes, prefixes, and countries of origin.

Comment by Lisa Davis on March 31, 2011 at 11:00am

My girl turned 5 at the end of July. Like yours, she already knew her letters and most of the sounds.  She was excited when we started last fall but after Thanksgiving and Christmas she got bored real easily.  That's when I cut out all of the "fluff", the artsy type assignments, and mainly did the worksheets.  That's why we are through in March and not May.  This motivated her to finish the kindergarten so she could begin first grade.  So, to answer your question, yes, she may get bored but you can speed up when necessary.  BTW, the reason I chose the boxed curricula is because I am the most non-organized, non-scheduled person on this Earth!!!  I had to have something to tell me what to do versus me trying to figure it out on my own.  I personally would not buy a seperate math curriculum.  Dollar stores have an abundance of workbooks, add./sub. posters, etc.  The MFW K covers counting to 100, calanders, simple add/sub, counting by 10's, and a few other things.  It's okay in the math dept. just not great.  I would also like to add that it is amazing how much you, the parent, can learn about homeschooling in one year.  I look back at this time last year and laugh at myself for being so stressed out about what to do.  I think you will do great!  Would love to hear from some of the "veteran" homeschool moms.  I look at many of you that have been HSing for 10-20 years and think to myself "they have it all together" but I'm sure things were not always that way.  This season of my life is filled with much chaos but it is also filled with many, many blessings!

Comment by Erin Scott on March 31, 2011 at 9:35am

Thanks for the info! 

Lisa,

I keep looking at other options and then come back to MFW. I think I am either going to just purchase individual phonics and math curriculum and do it that way or go with MFW. It will be my first year so I really liked the idea of the box curricula. I had heard that MFW math wasn't the best, so I had been looking at Horisons to add to it. Were you happy with the phonics portion of MFW? My daughter already knows her letters and sounds and so I am wondering if it will be going backwards for her or boring? What do you think?

erin,

Were you happy with Horizons kinder math? What have you used for phonics? 

Thanks!

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